The pesticides industry has been accused of lobbying EU and US
negotiators involved in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP) talks, in an attempt to weaken the future regulation
of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).

As we can see/understand/comprehend unless the populace becomes proactive and engaged, governments will continue to collude with the petro/chemical industry to carry on poisoning us all. Business as usual!

In its report, Lowest Common Denominator,
the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel) says the US
pesticide industry body, CropLife, and its European counterpart, the
European Crop Protection Association (ECPA), are advocating a risk
assessment approach to evaluation of endocrine disruptors, instead of
what it calls the “more protective" EU approach.

“This position defies
the wealth of information suggesting that EDCs break 'all the rules and
assumptions that have guided toxicology through the era of modern
chemical regulation'," the report reads.

The ECPA criticised the report, telling Chemical Watch
that “the risk assessment process specifically considers vulnerable
populations – such as infants and pregnant women – and applies large
safety margins.” The current testing designed to assess pesticides in
both the US and the EU use the "globally accepted" OECD toolbox of
assays and tests for endocrine disruption, the ECPA says.

According to an article published September 9, 2014 by the European news provider EurActiv
the new transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) could
undermine EU legislative efforts regarding endocrine disrupting
chemicals (EDCs). In the article Robert Pederson, food policy
coordinator at the multi-stakeholder platform Arc2020, points
out that the European Commission is currently considering a revision of
the European pesticides legislation, thereby potentially facilitating
the marketing of EDC-containing products. Further, Pederson reports on
recent efforts by the U.S. and EU to seek a ‘harmonized approach’ on
EDCs under the TTIP. In letters sent to the U.S. Trade Representative
some industries have called the European ban of neonicotinoid, a
specific class of pesticides suspected to harm especially bees, an
“abuse of the precautionary principle”, Pederson illustrates. As a
consequence he expresses concern that harmonization efforts may
undermine European EDC legislation and the EDC criteria still to be
decided on.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDC) are found in a range of product
from plastics used for packaging food and drinks to commonly used
pesticides. EDCs or just EDs (endocrine disruptors) interfere with
hormone systems in humans, animals and plants, and cause “adverse
health effects in an intact organism, or its progeny, or
(sub)populations” according to the position adopted by the WHO's
International Programme on Chemical Safety. EDs are known or suspected
to cause a number of health problems such as learning disabilities,
attention deficit disorders, cancer and are increasingly linked to
obesity and metabolic disorders such as type 2 diabetes.

Delays producing criteria for identifying EDs were “justified because
of the complexity of the issue, evolving science and diverging views
among scientists and stakeholders.” However a senior EU official
interpreted the delay differently: “The endocrine strategy was blocked
because of lobbying by the cosmetics industry”, EurActiv reported. The
fear is that, in light of impending trade agreements, a regulatory chill
is already starting to bite.

The European Commission, in their revised strategy on EDs, is
currently weighing whether to propose changing EU legislation governing
the use of pesticides. Such a landmark volte-face would potentially make
it much easier for companies to market products containing substances
that affect human hormones.

This is a key demand by the ‘crop protection’
(agro-chemical/pesticide) industries on both sides of the Atlantic in
US-EU trade talks. In May 2013, CropLife America, agro-chemical
lobbyists, wrote to the US Trade Representative, citing the
neonicotinoid ban as an example of the “abuse of the precautionary
principle by the EU” and described the “categorisation of chemicals as
endocrine disruptors currently taking place” as “highly problematic”.
Stating that this “runs counter to the science-based risk assessment
approach used by the US Environmental Protection Agency”.

In June 2014, the Commission published a roadmap,
which contained an option to shift from the current EU approach of
banning the use of all EDs in pesticides, towards a model that could
allow them to be used as long as certain steps are taken to mitigate the
risk.

Recently, it was announced that US and EU will seek a 'Harmonised
Approach' on EDs in a pilot program. The initiative on EDs is one of
three pilot programs on chemicals launched by the US and EU in parallel
to TTIP. The other two programs, which are focused on chemicals
screening and labeling, were announced by the EU following the sixth round of TTIP talks held in July.

A spokeswoman from the Environmental Protection Agency in the US,
quoted in Inside US Trade, stated "Our goal is to have a harmonised
approach to prioritization and screening of chemicals based on endocrine
bioactivity and environmental exposure".
Although very little is known about what will be included in the
pilot program due to secrecy arrangements,(= tyranny) the distinct possibility
remains that the program will focus on finding a common approach toward
the risk assessment of EDs. The overall aim of TTIP is after all to
reduce barriers to trade. In this context, the potential is clearly
there for negotiators to work towards minimisation of even the chance
that the criteria and methods used in one jurisdiction could give a
different result than in the other.

How will these efforts at harmonisation affect the Commission’s
current review of legislation and policies on EDs, when criteria for EDs
have not yet even been agreed? The context for this imbroglio is
fraught. The Commission has still has not even agreed internally on what
criteria should be used to define such substances.

It is still unclear even which Commission services/agencies from the
EU will be involved in the ED program. The Commission's
directorate-generals for Health & Consumers (DG SANCO) and the
Environment (DG ENV), European Chemical Agency and European Food Safety
Authority all play roles regulating EDs in the EU.

The key questions, to our policy makers at the Commission, our newly
elected MEPs and Commission elects are: Why is the EU reviewing the
legislation – is it to protect public health and the environment or to
protect business interests? Will this mean even longer delays in
regulating EDs, thus endangering our health and the health of
ecosystems, both now and in the future?

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